Q Ships

The Mighty Iteron V, combat ship of New Eden!

Well sort of.

You might have already read this, if not then have a look, I'll wait for you to return.

Iteron Owns Megathron

Yes it's most amusing, but not the seemingly once a year event you may assume it is.

Witness the wonders of Twitter.

So we can see that the mighty Iteron V managed to vanquish at least 701 ships in 2011, of which 59 were battleships.

Mighty indeed!

The final words on this workhorse of New Eden are from our friends at a Japanese Eve Online web site, translated via the ever helpful Google Chrome.

"Final form Garento transport ship. Long as if they were freed at once the force because MarkIV. Really long.
When you are really broken so softening times head.
Cargo capacity is up to the maximum length was only proud. Approximately 25000m3, 38000m3 to reach to about three plug in an extension should be filled with cargo cargo rig without even the Low rig."

I think that says it all really.

Approaching the Truth

A new video for Eve Online was released yesterday and apart from over selling the action a little bit it is by far and away the most truthful promo video released by CCP in recent times.

Enjoy!

Superior Control of DUST514

Yesterday in the world of Twitter this happened...

While I'm not entirely convinced this is an actual "official" official announcement it is possible that keyboard and mouse support for DUST514 may be a reality.  With luck at the Fanfest we'll find that out for sure.

Dusting the Potential Account Issues

The DUST514 closed beta sign up is now finally with us, more information and a link to the sign up page can be found here.

Also a couple of interviews have been made with CCP about Eve Online, DUST514 and World of Darkness.  The interviews are fairly light on information and very little new information has been released but one educated guess has been confirmed.

DUST514 will be playable at Fanfest 2012!

That will be very interesting as for the first time we'll hear from actual gamers about DUST514.

I hope CCP have it working properly for the sake of everybody.

Some other news regards the updating of the Eve Online web site, this will be a multi stage process and seems geared more towards helping new players understand the game and what it can offer, rather than the grizzled veterans grousing about a 0.25 second delay in activating some module that only three other guys in the game use.

It's also that time of the year when my Eve Online game play account is due for renewal.  For some reason this was a drama last time and it would seem we are heading towards the same problem this time.  Anticipating some issue I started contacting CCP about the possible impending situation more than a week ago via the petition system.  I was then asked to contact somebody else, fair enough, but after two emails I'm still waiting for a reply.

On the plus side I've recently bought a Kindle, so I'll be better catered for entertainment wise should I have forced downtime.

The Queue and Official Corporation Forums

Over the past few days, perhaps a week or so, I've been hitting the login queue.  What I'm not sure about is what it means.  Is it caused by increasing characters logging in thus creating a traffic jam of sorts, or is it just CCP server issues?

CCP are doing some more to help the community, especially the younger corporations with an optional addition to the forums.  This addition provides a type of sub forum which is only accessible to members of the corporation, read more about it here.

Of some interest though is this...

"Neither CCP Staff nor the Volunteer Forum Moderators will monitor your Corp Forums. As the proprietors of the database, CCP staff will have emergency access in case something terrible happens that we need to verify, but Volunteer Moderators will under no circumstances be able to gain access."

With the current amount of racism, anti-semitism, discussions on exploits, bots and general ass hattery that exists in some of the various un-official forums, voice chat etc I'd be rather surprised if CCP can ignore that should it become endemic to the official corporation forums.

For these reasons I'm not entirely sure this new official forum feature will see much use, or its uptake will be very slow, but as each corporation forum is walled off from the rest we'll probably never know for sure.